A large pipe with a fan inside is a simple way to think of a radon mitigation system. But how does it work? We asked an ...

Radon is an odorless gas that causes more than 20,000 cancer-related deaths every year. Iowa and North Dakota have the highest risk-level for radon, and now a central Iowa real estate company has ...

You’ve probably heard of carbon monoxide and smoke detectors, but there’s another invisible threat that might be lurking in ...

This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. About 5 billion years ago, stars merged and exploded, creating uranium that eventually became ...

When it rains, when a low-pressure system passes by, and when water soaks the soil, it's not a great day to sample for radon. Those conditions force radon out of pore spaces and into basements. It ...

Poolesville is planning to install a radon and uranium removal system on three of its 11 wells. It is the first community water system in the state to make the installation, said Jay Apperson, ...

A Stapleton Homeowner’s Association will not allow a homeowner to install a radon mitigation system, citing “harms and risks” to other neighbors. Not long after Melissa Crowder put her Stapleton row ...

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